ShareDigitalResources parameter to allow individual settings
When the customer parameter shareDigitalResources is enabled, which is useful to allow freely available digital representations (for digital objects stored in Alma or in a remote digital repository) to be available to all institutions, records loaded from external data sources via discovery import profiles are also impacted by this. According to Ex Libris, this is by design as these records from external sources are considered as digital objects. This leads to the following problem in Primo:
As soon an IZ enables this parameter, its records from external data sources are included in the search results of local search scopes made in other IZs local views. Generally all external data sources which are shared with the network, should be part of the results for searches within the Discovery-Network-scope and not be part of the My-Institution-scope of an IZ which has no corresponding import profiles configured in their IZ Alma. (see details in SF 00992268).
An enhancement should allow the flexibility to define which resources are impacted by the customer parameter shareDigitalResources and which are not, such as the resources from external data sources.
Nikol Stepan, SLSP
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Stefan Kandera
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This is a really essential feature in a collaborative network. Please make this happen!